Blind Item: Who's Got a Bun In the Oven?

‘Tis the season when producers begin villainously twirling mustaches as they concoct season-ending cliffhangers that they hope will torture us all summer long. And the execs at one show — an hourlong drama, and a popular one at that! — have come up with a doozie.

According to an insider, much like 90210‘s impending baby bombshell, the series in question will end its season by revealing that one of its major female characters is pregnant! The news will catch everyone by surprise, no one more so than the mommy and daddy-to-be, who weren’t exactly trying to have a child. The baby boom will also come as a shock for another reason, but to give that away would narrow the field of candidates too much.

However, I’ll leave you with one clue: Unlike Gossip Girl‘s climactic reveal that Georgina was pregnant in its May 2010 season finale, in this case there will be no mystery about the identity of the father.

House SPOILER: If it were Cuddy, it should have shown up on the scans/ultrasound she had. If it was way too early to show, I would worry that the x-rays would have harmed the baby. She can’t have House’s baby now unless they plan to have another romp in the sack

And why on earth would an abortion villianize Cuddy? There is nothing wrong with abortion and she’s a strong-willed woman who seems like the type who believes in a woman’s choice. That being said I don’t believe it’s her, anyway.

The reason that an abortion would villainize her may not be because of the politics of it at all. The fact that she worked so hard to adopt a baby and then would abort her own would probably do it for most people.

You do realize that life starts at conception, which therefore means abortion is murder. How is there nothing wrong with murdering your child? I am 100% pro life but do believe under certain circumstances (ie sexual assault or illness) abortion is the right choice.

I have a feeling this story line has NOTHING to do with House. Cuddy is unable to conceive, which lead her to adopt Rachel. She struggled for a long time to have Rachel and I doubt they would do all that just to have her fall pregnant to House. Sorry, NO!. Also there is no way after everything she went through for Rachel, that she would abort her child if she was to fall pregnant, no partner or not.

YES!!! I was thinking the same thing! We’ve been hearing all about Ray this season so it wouldn’t be any surprise who the father is if they were to announce that she was prego. Abby would be fun too, especially if it meant she and Timmy had hooked up!

Agree, especially with the “seeing double” clue at the end!!
It would also make sense why they rushed our Olivia into bed with Peter, it didn’t really fit, but if they want to make sure to have mirror pregnancies they can’t be far behind Fauxlivia.

I’m thinking the same thing about the Cuddy angle, actually it was the first thing to pop in my head, it would also be unexpected as of the current Huddy status but after the refusal of House to sleep with his married ho, really how far away can make up sex be? And let’s not forget that this is tv where the impossible is possible!

ITA with Sara about Chuck. I’ve found it more exciting with Sarah and Chuck together and am glad the showrunners are doing it in such a way that I don’t feel like (at least I hope not) that they are interested in doing the will they/won’t they charade.

Hayley and Nathan work much better and are far more interesting once they let them be a basically happily committed couple. Lois and Clark are much more fun on Smallville once they did the same. The brief time Sydney and Vaughn were happily together on Alias was a fun and entertaining period for the show, and it went drastically downhill when the show yanked them apart again. Aeryn and Jon were adorable when they got to be happy together on Farscape (and much of the yanking them apart again was the more annoying period of the show).

Once you reach a certain point with a couple, a good show has to just let them move forward and to work on discovering what storylines are now available in the new situation. When a show successfully does this, it’s often a breath of fresh air to the show and it can take on a new burst of “fun”. It’s the strict following of the “status quo is god” that brings a show spiraling into stagnation. Shows where couples get together or almost get together and then break up again for increasingly stupid reasons get tiresome, and the appeal of the relationship eventually starts to tarnish under all that angst. Letting things move forward allows the writers to refocus their creativity and do something new.

i def agree with Chuck i love that chuck and sarah are together and i don’t have to worry ne more about the will they won’t they i mean i loved it well it happened and hated it at the same time lol. But so many shows do that and then break them up a million times even though u know they’re gonna get together and it’s like cmon already just stay together and stop breaking up! That’s y i love that Chuck has kept them together. Chuck 4 ever!!

Moonlighting died – not because the characaters lost the will they or won’t they – but because by the time they did – the writing and story telling was tired and the Cybill / Bruce relationship had gone sour.

Moonlighting is still a good example, because the sexual tension was a core part of the show. Once that dynamic was gone the show collapsed.

Other shows that are set up the same way almost always suffer the same fate when the characters finally get together. I can’t comment about Bones as I don’t watch it, but Castle I think is a good example. If Castle and Beckett ever got together I think the show would go belly up very quickly.

I Dream of Jeannie, Remington Steele, and The Nanny are more examples of shows that went belly up once the sexual tension was gone. I’m sure there are more, but frankly I’m tired right now and can’t think of any others :)

Seriously? So, based on your post, I’m to believe that “sexual tension was a core part of the show.” I’ve only ever seen it in reruns, but I don’t remember there EVER being sexual tension between Jeannie & her master.

I am so glad to see people post about what a crock it is to cite Moonlighting as an example. They waited too long to put them together, executed the hook-up horribly, and the actors were phoning it in for months beforehand.

I just want to remind you that in Remington Steele the romance/sexual tension was never resolved and this is why the ratings went down, people had enough of watching the romance roller-coaster, this TV show is an example of the extreme in the other direction of UST. The good show should balance the romance and the good writer should know when to cut UST as too much dragging of the will they/won’t they just becomes ridiculous like Bones. At this point I don’t really care if Bones/Booth are together any more

Exactly! Besides I was there when Moonlighting aired and that wasn’t the reason the show failed. It was because Shepherd and Willis couldn’t stand each other, and it transpired on screen more and more every day.

This “Moonlighting” post is a troll. An obvious, kind of lazy troll. I understand the motivation. Sooner or later someone brings this up, and it’s so tired a comment that people are beginning to get sick of it and lash back.
That’s why it’s a lazy troll. It’s so easy to hook the fishies.

Unfortunately too many people (well, showrunners) still subscribe to this tired theory (I’m looking at you, Hart Hanson). They’re convinced that the only reason viewers tune in is because they’re stringing us along, keeping us guessing whether or not the couple will get together, cause of course that must be the only reason we’re watching. It shows a disturbing lack of faith in their writers’ abilities and in the viewers’ intelligence. Wish they would get over it.

Um, so now you can get pregnant for kissing someone? really?
Tell me when these two had sex… you can’t, right?
Besides, the producers won’t let Beckett get pregnant, the shows it’s to damn good to ruin it :)

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Meredith on Grey’s Anatomy. They pretty much gave up “trying” and are just going with the flow, if I remember correctly. Everyone thought it was going to be her but it turned out to be Callie. Shonda has also said that she wasn’t sure when they were going to get pregnant but not to rule it out. If it’s not this I have no other guesses!

1. We would not second guess the father.
2. They have stopped “trying” and are just going with the flow.
3. It would be a shock cause of their fertility issues, but if he said that we would have guessed her immediately!

This would make sense. Especially since he said “baby boom,” which would imply that there are other pregnant people on the show (such as Callie.) Christina and Owen would definitely be a shocker since she doesn’t want kids, but watching her deal with pregnancy would be hysterical.

I think it is Cristina and Owen, too. Not Meredith and Derek, who have been trying all season. Cristina and Owen have not been trying and also the shock is mainly for Cristina, who has said adamantly that she does not want children.

Wow… That makes so much sense. Our Olivia HAS to be pregnant right? Unless the tear in the universe from Peter being brought over altered the two worlds so that they don’t neccesarily mirror eachother anymore.

As much as I want to get onboard with this idea, the world’s aren’t totally in balance in terms of people. Olivia’s mother is dead in her world, Faux-olivia’s mom is alive and well in hers. And the couple that thought they were seeing the ghost of their spouse but were just seeing the other side – one couple had kids, the other didn’t. I’m not sure the rationalization fits, but dang – that would be one heck of a decision for Peter!

The universes were in balance until Peter was taken from my understanding. At some point, I believe, things will have to start balancing out again, unless the writer are dead set of eliminating on of the universes. Honestly I’d be so sad if that does happen, it would be so hard accepting that we’d never see the the missing side. At first I hated the other side, but the writer have done such a great job that I now see neither as villainous and enjoy both sets of characters equally. It is very possible Olivia is pregnant, but it wouldn’t be shocking to the viewers given what they know about the dynamics of the two universes.

I agree. Brooke getting pregnant would not be surprising at all. Plus, it said that it’s a pretty popular show, which doesn’t really describe One Tree Hill. I still watch it, but it gets less than 2 million viewers an episode. Definitely not what I would conisder a popular show.

I agree ! It’s Addison Montgomery in Private Practice! The article mentions “baby boom” and only in Shondaland there’s baby boom. It won’t be in Grey’s Anatomy cause we already have Callie having a baby, Meredith and Derek are trying to and the article sais that the couple isn’t actually trying to have a baby and the McKidd just ruled out a Christina-Owen baby in his interview in E Online today.

So, we go to Private Practice. Charlotte had lots of drama this season and she is getting married and doesn’t have fertility issues or sth like that, so a baby won’t be a surprise for her.Neither it would be for Violet since cause it’d be normal, she can have babies, she is married etc… Naomi is leaving the show, so a pregnancy of hers serves absolutely nothing.
Addison is the most possible answer cause of the following reasons:
1) The writers keep mentioning from time to time that she has 2 eggs left but also put her in total disbelief that she would even be able to have one… she said it in an episode this season “It will probably never happen to me”. So they might possibly have put her in a position of having giving up to birth control (cause she thought she had no chance…)
2) If she has a fight with Sam over his kiss with Naomi and they are distant for a while, they won’t be able to resist for a long time cause they live next door… A night where they just have some more wine and the love that they share, could easily bring them back together, especially since Naomi is out of the picture with Fife.
3) Even if Addie talks again with Sam about having a baby they will either end up with Sam asking for more time from her or her getting tested and once again being said that she has almost no chance and that there are “other options” etc…

The blind item sais that the couple isn’t actually trying to have a baby and Addisam isn’t. They are still debating it. Also, it sais : “The news will catch everyone by surprise, no one more so than the mommy and daddy-to-be, who weren’t exactly trying to have a child. The baby boom will also come as a shock for another reason, but to give that away would narrow the field of candidates too much” , so probably the person that gets pregnant does have fertility issues in order for the pregnancy to be a surprise even to the mother.

Finally, to rule out those who deny it cause Shonda said “No Addisam Baby this season”, this doesn’t mean we won’t get a pregnancy cliffhanger by the season finale, especially if Addison and Sam aren’t really good together after the kiss or another disagreement. What Shonda said, quite early this year, meant that like on other seasons where characters got pregnant in the middle of the season and had their baby ny the end of it, this wouldn’t be the case for Addison. If Addie gets pregnant, she’ll have the baby by next season. Too much potential in this storyline for Addison since Sam doesn’t feel ready, since she is an OBGYN and she’ll have to be the patient this time (possible pregnancy problems etc…).

Also, I forgot to mention, that when Kate Walsh was invited in the Rachel Ray show, Ray asked her how is the future for Addisam and Kate after thinking for a moment (she seemed to clearly used teh following word in purpose), she said “Bumpy, but in a good way”. And Ray make with her hand a sign of a pregnant belly, and Kate smiled and said “you never know!”.

Actually, that article does not really exclude Owen and Cristina. All he says is that they have stopped talking about the baby issue because it is a hot potato subject for both of them. He talks about the work conflict that will occupy their attention. So, they can still get pregnant, while they have their work issue.

I agree with you about Addie…in the last “next episode” set up it showed Addison taking a pregnancy test and looking kind of floored. Since she is supposedly “infertile” she & Sam probably haven’t bothered to use birth control. An Addisam baby!

It won’t be Beckett and Josh, he’s been out saving the world more than he’s been with Kate. I also think after this weeks two-part episode she’s starting to realize Josh may not be the man for her. Besides Andrew Marlowe said Castle is more of a sweeping romance than a procedural and having Beckett have another man’s baby doesn’t fit at all. Talk about the “Moonlighting Curse!”

I thought about this since it will be a weird twist for Castle but it wouldn’t fit. First, a pregnancy in a show where the leading lady is a cop is bad, since she will have to leave for maternity leave and would leave Castle without Beckett for a while (unless they placed this during the summer and then came back with her already having given birth)but then you have the little baby by himself…yeah I don’t see it working out. Second, this I believe will distance Beckett and Castle and I don’t think those are the writers plans. And Third, they mentioned “According to an insider, the series in question will end its season by revealing that one of its leading ladies to be pregnant!” It says leading ladies and this show only has Beckett.

Ziva and the yet to be met Ray. She wants something that “can’t be taken away” – at least that’s what she told Kate’s shrink sister. Could be the out if Cote decides not to return when her contract is up at the end of the season.
She might also be the secretly married character that our intrepid reporter was referring to.

Ziva still banters with Tony but the flirting stopped after her last skiing vacation with Ray.

OH, H#LL NO! First, let’s look at this rationally… the spoiler says there’s supposed to be no mystery about the father. We’ve had ZERO evidence that Tony and Ziva have EVER slept together. Besides, what about the mysterious Ray that’s been mentioned throughout the season?

With luck, Ray will give Ziva the permanence that “can’t be taken away,” which would be a good out if CdP doesn’t renew her contract at the end of the season.

Not to mention the fact that Tiva is a nuclear-laden train wreck and is, by far, the worst chemistry on NCIS….

1. We would not second guess the father.
2. They have stopped “trying” and are just going with the flow.
3. It would be a shock cause of their fertility issues, but if he said that we would have guessed her immediately!

Someone on Grey’s, since it’s already baby central over there? Meredith is trying for a baby, so obviously not her. Christina? There’d be no question about the father. But it would be hilarious if it was Lexie/Jackson.

The only problem with Lexi & Jackson is that there WOULD be question of the father, she was back with Mark when he found out about Callie, and they’d had sex, so there could still be a “who’s your daddy” element to that. Cristina & Owen would be a good surprise, considering she isn’t supposed to be able to have kids either after her ectopic pregnancy with Burke (although the show seems to forget that part of history, and in all the baby talk they havent brought it up even once?) Meredith would still be somewhat of a surprise, given that she had to stop taking her fertility meds due to the severe side effects and has been told that was her only way to conceive. JMO. Olivia makes sense after the whole sleeping with Peter thing, not to mention it evens the score, since Peter’s choice of which side to fall on is what will ultimately decide the fate of the universes, well if Peter fell in love with both Olivias, the ball would fall on Faux-livia’s side too easily if she was the only one pregnant.

I am guessing Desperate Housewives. I am guessing Bree because she thought she was starting menopause. And I am guessing Brian Austin Green comes back and is the dad OR a new leading man we meet this spring.

Good thought. Can’t be BAG, or if it is, he won’t be coming back, because he already signed on to another show, and Ausiello confirmed that he will not be appearing on DH again. Could be his, and the new guy helps raise the baby though?

Ah, that’s a very good guess! I didn’t even think of Parenthood. However, now that I am, might I also suggest Crosby and Jasmine. She’s been really overemotional since they broke up, and it would be a shock since they aren’t together anymore and it would probably force them back into each other’s lives. But who knows, the timing probably wouldn’t be right if this wasn’t happening until the season finale. Christina and Adam seems like a much more logical guess.

You’re right, that would completely be a shocker, and it makes sense with what he’s talking about with how it’s a shocker for another reason then they weren’t trying. The second shock would because of their young age. This is my new vote.

Ohh good guess! My only thought is that we won’t have another Grey’s pregnancy this year especially because Callie’s was basically exactly like what this blind item is saying. Shonda doesn’t usually do repeats like that. I’d love to see Lexie preggers though!

My first thought is Sarah on Chuck. It would be a fun dynamic to play with next season *fingers crossed* to see Sarah struggle with the limitations of pregnancy vs. wanting to be a spy, and eventually having to stay behind. It would also be fun to see who they bring in to replace Sarah while she’s on “maternity leave.”

Well you would think that this was something that would show up in a medical exam somehow if it were Cuddy, but then again, we don’t know what is coming in the next few episodes, or maybe it was too soon to tell last night and it could be House and Cuddy. But I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Narrowing it to a network would be nice Ausiello, just sayin’ ;)

That was my first thought too! It would certainly be a surprise, since the original CSI has no babies at all. Sara and Grissom can’t exactly be trying to have a baby if they only see each other occasionally, and they’re not that young anymore, so I’m pretty sure it would be a shock. Plus, no one would question if Grissom is indeed the father. I’m not pro-GSR (or against it, for that matter), but I’d like to see a season finale like this. It would be a change of scenario.

At first, I was a bit skeptical about Grissom and Sara having a baby too – I mean, they’re not that young, right? Grissom is, what, 55? Anyway, but if we look closely that would be, like, the next step. When CSI began, no one thought they’d get together. When they got together, no one thought they would get married. And both Grissom and Sara have a huge amount of fans – CSI won’t ever please everyone, but it’s not like the writers haven’t surprised us. And while some people hate GSR, I can assure you that most people absolutely love it.

In March 15th’s Ask Ausiello, it was said that Lisa and Ben will be back and the story will be explored heavily. Maybe a one night stand will occur? Then there’s the part where Jensen was quoted as saying “I think there’s a part of [Dean] that was left with them [Lisa and Ben].” Take that literally if you want to. And Jim Beaver tweeted that the season finale is going to blow minds and that he “didn’t see this coming.”

Of course, Dean and Lisa aren’t trying for a baby and the other reason it’d come as a huge shock would be because Supernatural doesn’t exactly *do* pregnancies. It’d be really interesting (and maybe funny, looking back on the Two and a Half Men episode) to see how Dean would cope with the idea of being a dad (whether he’s a part of the kid’s life or not). I’m not totally for it, but I like the idea.

My guess is : BROOKE in One Tree Hill. They’re trying to adopt, not “exactly trying” to have a baby as Ausiello says. And I read somewhere she was even going to have twins. But Ausiello hates the show so ^^

That was my first thought too. But then again, they might not get another season for a finale cliffhanger wouldn’t be very nice. The whole Valentines Day episode I was thinking, “Really? They’re going to adopt AND she’s going to be pregnant too?”